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What are you reading October 2017?
What are you reading October 2017?
Getting a head start. I might be distracted tomorrow when I start watching the latest episode of Outlander.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- red805
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 303
- Joined: August 2008
- Preferred HF: I like a series the best - more to look forward to after one book ends. Masters of Rome, The Century Trilogy, & the Outlander series are some of my favorites.
- Location: Southern California
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
I just started Ken Follett's Column of Fire. A little predictable so far, pitting the good versus the not nice characters against each other as he has done in his other Kingsbridge novels. Lot's of interesting happenings in the world in 1558 though & I am a Follett fan, so I hope once we get past introducing the cast there will be a little more historical action.
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
Just started Coattails & Cocktails by Rumer Haven. It's a book I've received to review and it's set in the 1920s, an Agatha Christie-esque style mystery.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer (NF)
Of interest, the author's website says The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain will be published in 2019.
Of interest, the author's website says The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain will be published in 2019.
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler, a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew from the Hogarth Shakespeare series of retellings Shakespeare plays by contemporary writers.
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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
I'm reading Tall Chimneys by Allie Cresswell. It hasn't been published yet and there's no synopsis or cover as yet either. I was asked by the author to join a team of reviewers to help promote the book. It's about a house set over 100 years beginning in 1910 and it's told through the eyes of the daughter of the house. Enjoying it so far.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- princess garnet
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1797
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Maryland
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
Empire's Ghost by Isabelle Steiger
Borrowed from the library: an epic fantasy novel of rivaling kingdoms. The cover (click to view) is well done.
Borrowed from the library: an epic fantasy novel of rivaling kingdoms. The cover (click to view) is well done.
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
I'm just about to start an appropriate spooky tale for October/Hallowe'en - The Eleventh Floor by Shani Struthers.. It's another book I gave to review.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
I've started a Halloween read too "Season of the Witch" by Natasha Mostert.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: What are you reading October 2017?
I've just started "The Loney" by Andrew Michael Hurley.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross